a day at malibu beach... this is right in front of the restaurant that appeared in Fast and the Furious.... Neptune's Net....

The Baddest Cowboy from this side of the Missisipi

Since yesterday I painted my niece it seemed right that I would follow it up with a painting of my nephew.. one bad cowboy.:)

My Beutiful Niece

Today I decided to spend a little more time on my warm up. I used my niece as my model...well actually a picture of her.... I don't think I can get her to sit long enough for me to capture her...hopefully she doesn't mind.:)

10 min warmup

Warm up sketch 15min

15 min concept sketch.

Progress 2

Here is my second progress posting. I'm still laying items in but I've gotten to the point where I can begin adding detail and pushing things back and forward to add depth to the piece.

10 min warm up

Today's 10 min warm up came out a bit darker than I expected... I didn't have anything specifically in mind so I just let my pen do its thing. The result was this dark character... maybe I've been watching the dark night too much... hopefully the next one will be more cheery.:)

10 min warm up sketch

I'm trying to get in the habit of doing a warm up sketch before I begin working ...of course depending on how busy I may be that may not always be the case... for my very first 1, I decided to keep it simple... a quick 10min self portrait... I wanted to just focus on shapes...like a painting... took me back to Bob Cato's sketching for Illustration class in school... for my very first one... specially since i normally dont sketch on a computer .. I think it came out good... needs plenty of work but for a 10 min sketch...I think I captured myself good..specially in the eyes..:)

Painting

I began painting one of the thumbnails from my prior post. I thought it would be cool to keep track of my work in progress of the painting and see how it develops. Hopefully this helps me be a bit less self conscious about showing my work in progress.

story

I'm finally getting around to creating a blog and playing with it. These are two sketches I came up with from a story I wrote while taking a children's literature class a few years ago. I recently came across it while cleaning some of my junk and got inspired by it. They are a bit rough but this lets me get the feeling of the piece without spending too much on detail. I think I will carry the second one to finish... let's see what happens.